W. C. Fields : his follies and fortunes (1949)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

W. C. Fields sion. Three months after his salary was docked, he maneuvered the producer into giving him a new contract. Fields hired a lawyer, at considerable expense, and worked out each paragraph with great care. He had bided his time well. One of the clauses in the smallest type read: "The management shall provide all tennis balls used professionally, though not for personal recreation, by the undersigned." "Ziegfeld didn't argue," says a man who was there. "He just shook his head sadly and signed. Bill was slumped down in a chair, looking out of a window. That great mind appeared to be occupied elsewhere." 156